Ride Share & Food Delivery Service After Hours

  • Ride Share & Food Delivery Service After Hours

    Posted by Patrick Foley on October 31, 2025 at 11:30 am

    Good Morning from Massachusetts,

    Last weekend our campus had a shooting outside one of our residence halls, thankfully nobody was harmed and the suspect has been arrested. However, we are in the process of reviewing all of our access control measures along with just a comprehensive review of protocols and procedures across the board. We have a main entry point to our campus that is the only access point from 7pm-7am M-Thursday and 7pm Friday through 7am Monday. One of the issues we run into is Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Doordash, and other type services coming onto campus. As of now we do not have a single meeting point or central location for these services. We are a residential campus with extensive buildings and roads and can be quite difficult to navigate for the first time and at night. We are also dealing with the typical college population that doesn’t want to walk further than their door. Hoping to get some ideas of what folks are doing for these kinds of services, do you have a central pick-up/drop-off location for ride shares? Do you have a central location for all food delivery? What kind of security measures are you using to verify these services, etc. Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated!?

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    Patrick Foley
    Director & Chief of Public Safety & Police
    Curry College
    MA
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    Regina Coppa replied 3 months, 1 week ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Barry Leeds

    Member
    October 31, 2025 at 11:55 am
    We are struggling with the same thing. Our campus would also be very interested in ideas to address access control for all of these services.
    Thank you
    Barron Leeds 
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    Endicott Public Safety and Police Department

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    Original Message:
    Sent: 10/31/2025 11:30:00 AM
    From: Patrick Foley
    Subject: Ride Share & Food Delivery Service After Hours

    Good Morning from Massachusetts,

    Last weekend our campus had a shooting outside one of our residence halls, thankfully nobody was harmed and the suspect has been arrested. However, we are in the process of reviewing all of our access control measures along with just a comprehensive review of protocols and procedures across the board. We have a main entry point to our campus that is the only access point from 7pm-7am M-Thursday and 7pm Friday through 7am Monday. One of the issues we run into is Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Doordash, and other type services coming onto campus. As of now we do not have a single meeting point or central location for these services. We are a residential campus with extensive buildings and roads and can be quite difficult to navigate for the first time and at night. We are also dealing with the typical college population that doesn’t want to walk further than their door. Hoping to get some ideas of what folks are doing for these kinds of services, do you have a central pick-up/drop-off location for ride shares? Do you have a central location for all food delivery? What kind of security measures are you using to verify these services, etc. Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated! 

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    Patrick Foley
    Director & Chief of Public Safety & Police
    Curry College
    MA
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  • rmulcahy

    Member
    October 31, 2025 at 1:32 pm

    Good Afternoon,

    While the food deliveries are dropped al over campus, at Wheaton College all mail deliveries (UPS, FedX etc) are delivered to Campus SAfety with the mailroom staff making a pick up every morning. The downside to this is long or holiday weekends where we receive a substantial amount of packages which are then stored in a secure area.

    Best,

    Chief Mulcahy?

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    Roy Mulcahy
    Chief/Director of Campus Safety
    Wheaton College Massachusetts
    Norton MA
    United States
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    Original Message:
    Sent: 10-31-2025 11:29
    From: Patrick Foley
    Subject: Ride Share & Food Delivery Service After Hours

    Good Morning from Massachusetts,

    Last weekend our campus had a shooting outside one of our residence halls, thankfully nobody was harmed and the suspect has been arrested. However, we are in the process of reviewing all of our access control measures along with just a comprehensive review of protocols and procedures across the board. We have a main entry point to our campus that is the only access point from 7pm-7am M-Thursday and 7pm Friday through 7am Monday. One of the issues we run into is Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Doordash, and other type services coming onto campus. As of now we do not have a single meeting point or central location for these services. We are a residential campus with extensive buildings and roads and can be quite difficult to navigate for the first time and at night. We are also dealing with the typical college population that doesn’t want to walk further than their door. Hoping to get some ideas of what folks are doing for these kinds of services, do you have a central pick-up/drop-off location for ride shares? Do you have a central location for all food delivery? What kind of security measures are you using to verify these services, etc. Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated! 

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    Patrick Foley
    Director & Chief of Public Safety & Police
    Curry College
    MA
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    • Regina Coppa

      Member
      October 31, 2025 at 1:45 pm

      At one of Northeastern’s global campuses, there is one main vehicle and pedestrian entrance that all ride-share and delivery drivers must enter.? We request government ID and confirm with the driver that they have an active drop-off located on campus, to ensure they have a valid reason for being on campus. Email below, happy to discuss further.?

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      Regina Coppa
      Senior Director – Global Site Security
      Northeastern University
      r.coppa@northeastern.edu

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      Original Message:
      Sent: 10-31-2025 13:32
      From: Roy Mulcahy
      Subject: Ride Share & Food Delivery Service After Hours

      Good Afternoon,

      While the food deliveries are dropped al over campus, at Wheaton College all mail deliveries (UPS, FedX etc) are delivered to Campus SAfety with the mailroom staff making a pick up every morning. The downside to this is long or holiday weekends where we receive a substantial amount of packages which are then stored in a secure area.

      Best,

      Chief Mulcahy 

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      Roy Mulcahy
      Chief/Director of Campus Safety
      Wheaton College Massachusetts
      Norton MA
      United States
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      Original Message:
      Sent: 10-31-2025 11:29
      From: Patrick Foley
      Subject: Ride Share & Food Delivery Service After Hours

      Good Morning from Massachusetts,

      Last weekend our campus had a shooting outside one of our residence halls, thankfully nobody was harmed and the suspect has been arrested. However, we are in the process of reviewing all of our access control measures along with just a comprehensive review of protocols and procedures across the board. We have a main entry point to our campus that is the only access point from 7pm-7am M-Thursday and 7pm Friday through 7am Monday. One of the issues we run into is Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Doordash, and other type services coming onto campus. As of now we do not have a single meeting point or central location for these services. We are a residential campus with extensive buildings and roads and can be quite difficult to navigate for the first time and at night. We are also dealing with the typical college population that doesn’t want to walk further than their door. Hoping to get some ideas of what folks are doing for these kinds of services, do you have a central pick-up/drop-off location for ride shares? Do you have a central location for all food delivery? What kind of security measures are you using to verify these services, etc. Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated! 

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      Patrick Foley
      Director & Chief of Public Safety & Police
      Curry College
      MA
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